Oracle has unveiled the Oracle Exalytics Business Intelligence Machine, the industry's first combined in-memory hardware and software system.
This new system combines Oracle's Business Intelligence Foundation with enhanced visualisation capabilities and performance optimisations; an optimised version of Oracle's TimesTen In-Memory Database with analytic extensions; and an Oracle server designed specifically for in-memory business intelligence.
The system is engineered and supported entirely by Oracle. Subsystems include:
* A Sun Fire server featuring 1 terabyte of RAM, and the Intel Xeon E7-4800 processor with a total of 40 cores;
* Oracle BI Foundation software, including Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition and Oracle Essbase; and
* Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database for Exalytics, and optimised for business intelligence.
Oracle says existing reports and dashboards built with Oracle BI Enterprise Edition and Oracle BI Applications run on Oracle Exalytics without any changes.
There is also interactive visualisation that enables casual users to perform free-form exploration of large, dense data sets, an iPad app that can scale to many thousands of mobile users, and in-memory technology.
Exalytics can access and analyse data from any Oracle or non-Oracle relational, OLAP or unstructured data source, such as IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, Netezza, SAP Business Information Warehouse, and Teradata, among others.
The company says internal tests comparing Oracle Exalytics to standard BI software and off-the-shelf hardware show relational OLAP reporting and dashboard performance improvements of up to 20 times, and multidimensional OLAP modelling performance gains of up to 79 times.
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